Floor-board-holding means



April 6 2 1926.

FLOOR BOARD HOIJDINCI MEANS Filed July 2]. 1924 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented -Apr. 6 1926. I

UNITED I WILLIAM nJjSrA iGLE, or .rl irnoAKs; du s er;

i w n-noiianaom q m s Application fi1edJu1y2 1,'1924. Serial No. 727,170.

r mobiles, and particularly those of Ford cars.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a device for the purpose, by

means of a number of which the floor-boards will be firmly held from vertical movement and prevented fromrattling, while at the vices from the car.

same time the boards may be easily removed when necessary without detaching the de- A further object of the invention is to produce a. simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposes for which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as willfully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. l is a fragmentary top plan View of an automobile, showing my improved floor-board holding means applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of one of the holding devices, shown in connection with the parts of the car with which it cooperates. 7

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the numeral 1 denotes the side sills of the car in this instance shown as pressed metal members having a longitudinal ledge 2 below their upper faces and which serve to support the ends of the floor boards 3. above arrangement and construction of parts is standard in certain cars, and I do not alter the same in any way.

The

improved means for holding the boards 3 firmly incontact with the ledges 2 com prisesa number of small plates 4 each havmg a depressed portion 5 ad acent one end and a downturned lip 6 at theother end. The portion 5 is adapted to rest on the board adjacent its end, while the lip bites into the sill 1 and prevents too ready turning of the plate. I I

The plate is flexibly and turnably mounted on the sill by means of a pin or bolt 7 passing through the portion 4: of said plate and through the sill 1. About the pin under the .sill is a compression spring 8, with an adjustable nut 9 on the pin below the spring.

In this manner, the portion 5 is firmly yet yieldably held in engagement with the floor board at all times, holding the latter against the ledge 2. At the same time, by

giving the plate a quarter turn in either dilatter may be readily lifted out.

.The depressed member 5 is necessary on rection, it will clear the floor board, and the account of the fact that the upper levels of the boards and sill are not always disposed the same with respect to each other. r 'The offset or depression'of the member 5 is sufficient to allow the latter to always bear against the board if the latter is lower than the sill, while if the board should be higher than the sill, the yieldability of the spring will allow the part 5 being raised the necessary distanceto overhang the board.

In practice,'I preferably use six of these I holding platestwo for each of the upper floor boards, one on each side thereof, and two along the rear edge of the main floor board, in connection with which a transverse s11l 1 of the same general form 'as the side SlllS 1, is always mounted.

If thesills are of wood, as in some cases,-

longer bolts 7 and shorter springs are the only changes needed.

From the foregoing description will be readily seen that I have produced such a device assubstantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted. to 111s do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention as defined by the appended claim.

cure by Letters Patent is:

Floor hoard holding means including the 5 combination of side sills, depressed ledges on the edges of the sills, ported posed through the sills,

floor boards supon the ledges, pins yieldably displates pivotally mounted on the pins, downturned ends on the plates to overhang the edge of the sills and engage the floor boards and down turned lips on the opposite ends of the plates to engage thesills.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM E. SPANGLE. 

